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The life stories of undistinguished Americans, as told by themselves / [edited by] Hamilton Holt ; with a new introduction by Werner Sollors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--United States--Biography.
- Minorities.
- United States--Biography.
- United States.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Local Subjects:
- Minorities--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 296 pages : plan ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Summary:
- Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people -- new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fisherman, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his original selection, as well as a new preface by Werner Sollors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-296).
- ISBN:
- 041592510X
- OCLC:
- 41400785
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